Lot 17
India
Collection of works, 19th-20th century, including rare gazetteers and Indian imprints
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
[Afghanistan] Bellew, Henry Walter. A General Report on the Yusufzais, in Six Chapters, with a Map. Lahore: Government Press, 1864. First edition, 8vo, [2] ix 266 xii pp., modern half cloth, lithographic folding map, illustrations in text, ink-stamps of King's College, Newcastle, marginal repairs to map and final leaf of index;
[Government of India]. Imperial Gazetteer of India, Afghanistan and Nepal. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1908. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, 2 folding lithographic maps to rear, contemporary ownership inscription and purchase note to front endpapers, printed Luzac & So purchase order slip dated 1916 pasted to rear pastedown;
Risley, Herbert Hope. The Gazetteer of Sikhim. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1894. First edition, one of 500 copies, 4to (26.2 x 19.6cm), later Indian half roan, [6] xiv [2] xxii 392 pp., 21 lithographic plates (many folding), including genealogies, reproductions of religious icons and frescoes, temple plans, and similar, 1 large lithographic map (of 2), folding in end-pocket, contents toned, ink-stamp ‘Forwarded by order of the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal’ to p. [5], half-title (bound after title-page) with effaced ink-stamp, a few plates with small handling tears, plate 7 strengthened on verso, small repair to plate 17, small stipple of worming appearing in gutter from about p. 100, gradually ramifying, folding map wormed;
Thompson, J. T. A Dictionary in Oordoo and English, compiled from the Best Authorities, and arranged according to the Order of the English Alphabet. Serampore: printed for the compiler, 1838. First edition, 4to, [4] 604 [4] pp., text in double column, later half cloth, title-page gutter strengthened;
Ainslie, Whitelaw. Materia Indica; or, Some Account of those Articles which are employed by the Hindoos, and Other Eastern Nations, in their Medicine, Arts, and Agriculture. London: for Longman [et al.], 1826. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xxiv 654 pp., xxxiv 604 pp., later half cloth, ink-stamps of the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Tamil, Arabic and Devanagari types, frequent references in text to Avicenna's Canon of Medicine, volume 1 without half-title (noted in other copies);
[Colebrooke, Henry Thomas]. Remarks on the Husbandry and Internal Commerce of Bengal. London: reprinted for the author, 1806. First London edition (first printed in Calcutta), 8vo, vii 206 pp., modern half cloth, [10] pp. advertisements to rear;
Sprenger, Aloys. A Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian, and Hindu'sta'ny Manuscripts, of the Libraries of the King of Oudh. Vol. I [apparently all published]. Containing Persian and Hindu'sta'ny Poetry. Calcutta: by J. Thomas, at the Baptist Mission Press, 1854. First edition, large 8vo, original cloth, ex Manchester Public Free Libraries with gilt call number to spine and label to front pastedown, spine chipped, binding slightly chipped;
Pithawalla, M. B. Sind's Changing Map, an Album Containing 51 Old and Rare Maps of Sind with Critical and Explanatory Notes on Them. Karachi: [for the author], 1933. Folio, original cloth-backed boards, 10 folding lithographic plates (each containing several maps), plates 7-10 each with short tear to foot of gutter;
and 11 others (these not fully collated, including: Charles Alfred Elliott, The Chronicles of Oonao, a District in Oudh, Allahabad, 1862; A. Kawabata, A Hermit Turned Loose, an Interesting account of European Travels, written in English by a Japanese Tourist, 1915; ‘An Officer of the Caroline’, An Account of a Voyage to India, China, etc., 1806; Moulvi Cheragh Ali, The Proposed Political, Legal, and Social Reforms in the Ottoman Empire and Other Mohammadan States, Bombay, 1883; Sir Jogendra Singh, Thus Spoke Guru Nanak, 1934; Gregory Rich, The Mutiny in Sialkot, 1924; and similar) (20)